The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

IN PARAGkAPES.
1t Cost Residents of Brunswick SIS, 900
to See the President and the Fair
Relics of Past Century Which Are
Owned in Various Parts of the State.
GEORGIA
A merchant in Terrell is sleng the Cen
trial railroad for 81 90 loss on freight.
A fire company will possibly be organized
on Rose Hill, Columbus, at an early date.
Gainesville has shipped thousands of
chickens to Atlanta during the past ten
days.
The cotton crop of Houston county this
year Will average about eight bales to the
pillow.
Floyd county won the 81 900 prize at the
Piedmont Exposition offered for the best
county exhibit.
The town clock at Washington has been
stopped once or twice this week by pigeons
lighting on the hands.
So many people went to the Piedmont
Exposition Wednesday that all the stores
were closed in some of the small towns in
the State.
Work on the government building at Au-
gusta will be begun in January. The gov
eminent has Just received and paid $50, 900
for its title to the lot.
During the past ten years there have been
only eight losses from fire in Washington.
One mill and two residences were among
the number the other losses amounted to
but little
W. F. Bragg, who is farming near Hayne-
Vile, in Houston county, has made this year
100 bales of cotton on six mule farm-l50
acres cultivated in cotton. This is by no
means a short crop of cotton.
The wife of Walker Chandler, of Nor
gan's district, Hall county, was delivered of
three children, two boys and one girl, at
one birth, on Thursday of last week.
Mother and babes are all doing well.
1t is not positively known yet whether
the Sumter county exhibit at Atlanta will
be taken to the State Fair or not. A great
deal depends-well, in fact, it all depends on
the outcome of the exhibit at the Piedmont
Exposition.
Garland Harmon, of Jenkinsburg, Butts
county, had his hand badly lacerated in
cotton gin a day or two ago. Drs. Peek
and organs dressed the wounds. We learn
that he lost a portion of two fingers, besides
being otherwise painfully torn to pieces.
William Gunby of Columbia county lost
his pocketbook in Atlanta, containing a
small sum of money, his return ticket and
about 81 900 in good notes. Fred Smalley
lost his watch at the hands of a villalnous
pickpocket while in attendance upon the
exposition.
At Atlanta Mrs. iodine Austell has be-
gun a suit for divorce from her husband
w. W. Austell. The papers have been filed
with the Clerk of the Superior Court
In her petition the plaintiff asks
for an absolute divorce, alleging drunken
ness and cruel treatment.
H. P. Armand, who is at the head of the
firm of Armand & Moon, is arranging to
erect first-clasS fertilizer mandatory at
T. L i
will be located near the depot on the side
track, if satisfactory arrangements can be
made with the railroad authorities for lot.
Albert G. Drane, an old Sumter county
boy, who is now holding a 81 200 clerkship
at Washington, not long ago was put to the
test as to his fitness for the position. In
large class. on civil service examination,
he led the class by making 90 out of pos
sible 100, thereby gaining his present 81 200
place.
For the next few DAYS Governor Gordon
will be very busy signing bills passed by
the General Assembly. The constitution
gives him five days in which to consider
bills after the Legislature has adjourned,
after the expiration Of which time all bills
passed become a law unless vetoed by the
Governor
Nearly every weekly paper in the State is
telling of men who were ieeced by pick
L
Wednesday. Several instances are also re-
corded of trains not stopping at stations
where crowds of people with tickets were
waiting, the trains being so full that there
was not room for one more
Pursuant to a call of the President, the
survivors of the Tenth Georgia regiment
met at the court house at Atlanta Thursday
and organized by electing by reclamation
the President and Secretary. Gen. i. Nc
Laws and Gen. Alfred Cumming, being
present and called on, each delivered a very
pleasant address, interpreted with reminis-
cences of the war.
lobe Holmes a colored man. of Perry.
has worked five DAYS of each week this year
for /. ID. Gurr, and one day of each week
for himself, cultivating thirty-five acres Of
land He has made on this land four bales
OF cotton, averaging 531 pounds; 40 bushels
of corn, 25 bushels of peas, and about 80
bushels OF potatoes. Two bales of this cot
ton is clear of all expenses, and lobe does
not owe cent.
II. c. Thaxton, the Tax Collector of
Butts county, has in his possession copper
souvenir of the late Confederacy It is
about the size of copper cent, and on one
side is Confederate flag in the centre and
around it are the letters "Our Flag and
the date, 1858. On the other side are the
words ''lf any one attempts to tear it down,
shoot him on the spot" with the words
Dixie" in the centre.
Tom Kennedy, an old Confed, who
knows ex-President Davis very well, lives
in Fort Valley He was badly wounded, and
in fact lay on the field for three days and
was supposed to be dead. He finally re-
covered sufficiently to do guard duty and
was stationed at President Davis residence,
and says he spent three years in his back
yard. Mr.. Kennedy will try and get to
Macon to see the President once more.
Mrs. Anna Vim, who lives about two
miles north of Perry, now has in her posses
sion glass decanter and a china teacup
that belonged to her grandfather fully 100
years ago. The cup is one of tea set of
extra fine china that was purchased by Mrs
WINS grandfather. 1t is of peculiar shape,
when compared with cups of modern de-
sign. Both of these articles have been sue
cessively handed down from the original
owner, and each has been occasionally used
each year since first purchased.
The following nominations were made
Thursday by Governor Gordon, trans
mitted TO the Senate, and were confirmed
in executive session by that body. Hon J.
Lee McCreery was appointed Solicitor Of
the County Court of Macon county for the
term of two years, beginning with the date
of his appointment Hon. Henry A. Roe
buck was appointed County Judge of the
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